I'm with you Omnituens, I have yet to fit and test mine. I've been so bogged down at work, when I come home I just don't have the energy to get my geek on. I'll wait for the weekend after my BF2 session & so that the other half can help. She'll be so freaking jealous, but she'll learn a lot.

Originally Posted by SkiddywinksI have had a fiddle with the iTracker program, but would still prefer rivatuner. Although, getting to tweak the RAM tinings is cool.

Shame I can't get rivatuner to allow me to overclock this thing :(

So does anyone know of any waterblocks that fit this? Preferably full cover. If not, a GPU block will be fine, with some RAMsinks.

I think most will tbh. Looking at the underside of the EK FC285 GTX full cover block, the worst that can happen is the need to remove the mosfet plate from the main block and use some heatsinks. Looking at a reference PCB and the Matrix PCB, they look very similar actually.

For the people talking about FPS drops and low performance, have you had rivatuner monitoring in the background? I was playing DoW2 the other day (another great freebie!), and my frames suddenly went drastically down hill. I exited the game, and checked riva, and it said the card had dropped down to 2D clocks before I had even left the game, suggesting the drop was due to the switching over to 2D clocks.

I have also noticed the card varying between 2D and 3D clocks when I am only using the desktop.

As for the whining, you get that with a lot of cards. My 4870X2 does it. However, this card is in a league of it's own. The fan works so well and is rather quiet. The whine is easily much louder than the fan though.